Steel piling-section.



s.B.s HBLDON. STEEL PILING SEGTON. APPLICATION FILED HAB 17, 19091 Patented Jan. 10,1911.`

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SAMUEL BERTRAM SHELDON, 0F ETHLEI-IEM, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 LACKA.- WANNA. STEEL COMPANY, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

STEEL FILING-SECTION.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Application filed March 17, 1909. Serial No. '5.254,018.v

' T o all 'whom it nea/yA concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL Alnnrimrr SHELDoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bethlehem, in the county olf-'Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Steel Filing-Sections, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to steel sheet piling and consists in a new forni of pile section to be used with sections of standard forni to make a complete wall of piling. The important feature of novelty is an intermediate pile section made in one piece and composed of a web and of a continuous pair of flanges on each edge thereof, forming along each edge a pocket, recess or groove. In forming the continuous wall of piling, these peculiarly formed pile sections are driven alternately with sect-ions of standard shape having a web and flanges or heads along bot-h edges of the web, which flanges or heads eX- tend on each side of the plane of the web.

In the preferred form of my invention here illustrated I have shown a form of Aintermediate section particularly adapted or use with railway rails. The pockets and lianges on the two edges of the web are of different sizes adapted respectively to re- 'ceive and engage with the head and the flanges ot the rail My invention 1s fully sliowniin the drawingherewith in which the reference letters and numerals of this description are used to indicate the different parts.y

`Figures I and 2 are respectively perspective and plan views showing my invention. A indicates the rail and B the peculiar intermediate section' to be driven alternately with the rails and engaging with a rail on each' edge. Said intermediate section may be variously vmade and formed, but I prefer to rollit of steel, as a complete one piece article having a. web l, a pair of similar, wider, hooked flanges Q along one edge forming the recess, 3, to receive the rail flange 12, and a pair of similar, narrower, hooked flanges 4, along the other edge forming the recess 5 to receive the rail head 14. Evidently the recesses along the edges are of a forni substantially to fit the rail flange and head respectively, but such fit n iust be somewhat loose to permit easy driving.

I have thu's produced a piling which is economical to construct and use, and strong to resist strains. It may be used in all situations wliere"slieet pile is desirable, but is particularly adapted for lighter work in coiffer-dams, retaining walls, sewer-work ete. It is desirable for temporary work in which, when finished, the sections of the piling may be withdrawn for further use.

To this end, holes should be-formed in the upper ends of all the sections as shown. O ne great advantage is that old railsand similar sha-pes may be used without special rerolling or other modification.

lVhile I have described al desirable form of intermediate sections, yet that form may be modified without Ideparting from my invention.

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Having thus described myy invention, what l I claim is,-

1. A steel, sheet-piling wall composed of railway rails, and arranged alternately with said rails interlocking sections having along each edge corresponding hooked flanges, said flanges extending outwardly from the web,

the flanges at one edge being longerthan the flanges at the other edge.

2. Interlocking sections for steel sheet p1ling combined with railway rails, and consisting as anintegrality of a web and of a pair of hooked v(langes along each edge of the web, forming an interlocking groove along each edge, the flanges along one edge being lower and having the hooks more bent to form a long and narrow groove to receive the rail flange and the flanges along the other edge being shorter to form a short and wide groove to receive the railhea-d..

3. A wall of steel, sheet piling composed, as alternate elements, ofrailway rails, having 4the usual narrower and thicker heads and the wider and thinner flanges, and of interlocking sections, having a pair of corresponding flanges on each edge inclosing grooves to engage with a part of the rail, the groove at one edge being of a size to correspond with and receive the rail head and the groove at the other ed e to correspond with vand receive the rail ange.v

4. Interlocking sections for steel sheet piling adapted to be arranged alternately with standard shapes and consisting of a web and of a pair of hooked flanges along each edge of the Yweb forming an interlocking groove, one of said grooves,I being wider than the other. Y l

5. Interlocking sections for steel sheetpil- Q L 981,018l

ing :adapted to be arranged alternately With forming 'an interlocking groove on erich standard shapes andconsisting of a web and edge, said web and said two flalwes on euch of a pair of hooked Hanges along each edge edge all being formed integral 1n a single of the web forming an interlocking groove piece.

5 on each edge, one of said grooves being In testimony whereof I have signed my Widerxand deepeigtlian the other; naine to' this specification in the presence of 6. Interlocking sections for steel, sheet piltwo subscribing Witnesses. ing, adapted to be arranged alternately, and SAMUEL BERTRAM SHELDON. to engage, With standard shapes, consisting Witnesses: 10 'of a straight, thin web and of a pair of HOWARD. H. GACKENBACH,

hooked anges on each edge of the web RAYMOND C. S'rnrmm.v 

